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A cold shrimp and crab salad with pasta, celery, onion, and green pepper. Imitation crabmeat also works well in place of real crab. Can also be made with salmon or tuna in place of shrimp and crab. You can cook Rick's Crabby Shrimp Macaroni Salad using 17 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Rick's Crabby Shrimp Macaroni Salad
- It's 5 large of eggs.
- Prepare 1 of green pepper.
- You need 1 small of sweet red pepper.
- It's 1 small of sweet yellow pepper.
- Prepare 1 small of sweet orange pepper.
- You need 1 large of shallot.
- You need 3 of celery stalks.
- Prepare 3 tbsp of fresh parsley.
- It's 1/3 tsp of old bay seasoning.
- You need 1 tsp of paprika.
- Prepare 1 of salt.
- Prepare 1 of ground black pepper.
- It's 1 of -6 oz can white crabmeat drained.
- Prepare 1 of -4 oz can tiny shrimp drained.
- It's 1 cup of Miracle Whip salad dressing.
- Prepare 1/2 cup of mayonnaise.
- It's 1 box of medium shell macaroni.
Although I have a couple macaroni salad recipes uploaded, such as my creamy macaroni salad, and my summer pasta salad - I still decided to upload a new and very simple macaroni salad recipe. This time I'm making Seafood Macaroni Salad! For my seafood macaroni salad I use large elbow macaroni pasta, and I add lots of shrimp and crab. Cook pasta in boiling salted water as directed on package.
Rick's Crabby Shrimp Macaroni Salad step by step
- hard boil eggs, refrigerate to cool when done.
- dice shallot,celery,and all peppers-reserve 1 or 2 pepper rings from each if desired for garnish. you may substitute just green or green and any other color pepper if others unavailable..
- chop parsley.
- chop 4eggs, reserve 1 for garnish.
- cook macaroni in salted water per box instructions. rinse in cold water and drain..
- drain canned crab and shrimp. you may substitute 2 cans of shrimp if you don't like crab, or 3 cans if you want to be decadent..
- in a large bowl combine all ingredients. toss gently. adjust miracle whip amount if more desired as well as seasonings..
- garnish with reserved egg and pepper rings. also with extra chopped parsley and paprika, if desired..
- refrigerate at least 1 hour to let flavors blend. longer is better even overnight..
- enjoy..
In a large bowl toss pasta in with shrimp celery green and red bell peppers and red onion. Mix mayo salad dressing and OLD BAY in small bowl. Pour over pasta mixture and mix well. This is a base recipe, and very versatile. You can add seasonings, fresh herbs, sweet pickle relish, etc.
